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- on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “Hey Father, Any expansion on the brief thoughts you provided would be great. Faithful Catholic here that wants to go…”
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- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “As for the conditions for reconcilliation, it’s interesting to see that – despite the wording being a bit vague at…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Venerator Sti Lot, I think your reasoning misses that excommunication doesn’t make one a non-Catholic in terms of the obligations…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1654: facade: “@The Bruised Optimist Part of what I teach my kids through their catechism is how so much of God’s salvific…”
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Facebook question, “like” it or not.
I have a Facebook page HERE. I don’t do much with Facebook, however. Is that bad? I have a question for you knowledgeable readers and veteran Facebook users. I have usually between 4900 and 5000 “friends” on Facebook. I have … Read More
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 18 December – Liberation Theology
In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity. It is one of the “greater feria” of Advent, the home stretch, as it were. Here is today’s COLLECT (2002MR): Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui sub … Read More
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 17 December
We are in the last day of Advent. Observe this period with greater intensity of preparation, remembering especially that Advent is mostly about preparation for the Second Coming of the Lord, even as we rejoice that the Son took up … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Tagged 17 December, ADVENT, WDTPRS
3 Comments
3 Comments
New, 2012 Ordo has arrived
Thanks to the kind folks at Angelus Press, I have a new Ordo for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. “But Father! But Father”, some people are about to ask, with a rising pitch: “Why do you write about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Angelus Press, Ordo
16 Comments
16 Comments
QUAERITUR: Getting a blessing at Communion time. Fr. Z rants.
From a reader: We hope to bring 2 children (extended family) to Mass on Christmas Eve. They have not been baptized. QUAERITUR: Are unbaptized children allowed to go up to Communion with their arms crossed and receive a blessing? What … Read More
The first podcasts of… Alexander Graham Bell: recovered!
This is for your Just Too Cool file from The History Blog, which has a very high cool quotient. Alexander Graham Bell. Bell, his cousin Chicester Bell and their colleague Charles Sumner Tainter created a business called Volta Laboratory Associates … Read More
We are amused
I have always said that when my day finally comes and I am at last named Cardinal Archbishop of Black Duck, for my … or should I say our… entrance into our cathedral to take possession of what is ours … Read More
Archbp. Nienstedt (St Paul and Minneapolis) proposes Marriage Prayer for MN Amendment
From The Catholic Spirit, the newspaper and site of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, comes this. With my emphases and comments: To assist statewide efforts to defend and define marriage in the Minnesota Constitution, Archbishop John Nienstedt has … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: GOP Nominee – Whom would YOU choose? (Round 1)
Will some of you bloggers out there give me a hand with this? It would be nice to have a large sample. I am trying to keep this as neutral and as objective as possible. The last TV debate before … Read More
Posted in POLLS, The future and our choices
Tagged GOP debates, GOP nominee, GOP primaries, poll
109 Comments
109 Comments
Dantesque on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@jhogan I’m praying for that! Just one comment on the Francis 2.0 thing: Francis seemed to like the SSPX much…”
